A way forward together (2): ecclesiology
If we are indeed to hold together as a church and a Communion, we need a framework and a shared understanding that will last.
‘Advent Calendar’: On a poem by Rowan Williams
Lord Williams of Oystermouth is inter alia an impressive poet and translator of poetry, and each Advent, I’ve found myself returning to one of Williams’s poems: “Advent Calendar.”
Sacramental depth in difficulty
Might it be that theological insight is most likely to occur in the state of “vulnerability and unprotectedness,” in those moments that seem very dark indeed? There might be evidence for this in the thought of Bonhoeffer and Merton.
Christian worship is boring
The Holy Eucharist is supposed to be boring. So claims the Catholic theologian James Alison. He says, “When people tell me that they find Mass boring, I want to say to them: it's supposed to be boring, or at ... Read More...
Review: Rowan Williams, Being Christian
What does being Christian entail? What distinguishes the Christian community from other communities? What do the diverse Christian traditions hold in common?
Augustinian brothers? Not so fast
Hard to believe the suggestion that Rowan and Benedict are anti-Thomists. But perhaps they did resist a contemporary “stripping of the altars.”
‘Be disciples today’
Archbishop of Canterbury: “God expects us to be disciples today, not the day after tomorrow.”
Abp. Williams at Vatican synod
“All contemplating of God presupposes God’s own absorbed and joyful knowing of himself and gazing upon himself in the trinitarian life.”